Re: OT:Thanksgiving

On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:14:26 -0500, LX-i <lxi0007@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

SkippyPB wrote:

I would disagree with that. As and example, a white member of the Klu
Klux Klan sees an Afircan-American with a white woman and shoots the
African-American to death. Why? Simply because the African-American
was consorting with a white woman and the Klu Klux Klan believe that
is worthy of death. Without a change in the law and depending on the
state, the KKK person could be convicted of 2nd degree murder and
possibly do only 10 years of prison time. With the addition of the
hate crime legislation, he'd most likely do life.

So, because a person holds views that you consider distasteful, their
punishment for the same crime should be higher? How is that anything
*but* criminalizing thought?

Has nothing whatsoever to do with thought. It is called mitigating
circumstances.

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